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Cycling the World: oktober 2009
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Exit Iran, Enter Pakistan. Voor foto's klik hier. Over wielrennen, literatuur en Rome. Ontvangen 17 t/m 20. Roeli and Willem Freeke. 21 oktober, 2009. Exit Iran, Enter Pakistan. Met mijn visum voor Pakistan op zak vertrok ik uit Teheran. Ik had besloten direct door te reizen naar Yazd vanwaar ik het grootste deel richting de grens zou fietsen. Zoals altijd werd het weer tijd om in te pakken en weg te fietsen. Marco en ik besloten niet over de grote weg te fietsen maar een kleine omweg te nemen langs ...
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Silk Road Ride: August 2010
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Sunday, August 15, 2010. Leysin, January 2, 2011. Sitting here in my apartment in sunny Leysin, Switzerland, it's about time to draw the saga of the Silk Road Ride to a close and tie up a few loose ends. I've enjoyed just about every minute of the entire process (OK, aside from the six months spent recovering from rheumatic fever in 2002! And I hope that this blog can help convey some of that excitement to you, my readers. Stay tuned to graydonstravels.blogspot.com for future trips! 2002: Xian to Urumqi.
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Silk Road Ride: September 2009
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Saturday, September 26, 2009. The Long and Winding Road to Stepanakert. Stepanakert, Saturday September 26. I'm sitting in an internet cafe in Stepanakert, the capital of the strange semi-country of Nagorno-Karabakh. Quick, how many of you know exactly where Nagorno-Karabakh is? Be honest, now! It doesn't appear on a lot of maps, because only one country (Armenia) considers it an independent country. It's a small area to the east of southern Armenia (11,000 square km and 150,000 people). Anyway, to resum...
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Silk Road Ride: June 2009
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Thursday, June 18, 2009. A map of the trip. So here, a little small but still legible (I hope; actually it doesn't look so hot, but if you double-click on it, it will reappear larger and more legible), is a map of where I went in 2002 (green) and 2004 (pink) and where I plan to go this year (blue). The map is from the Silk Road Foundation. Website, source of all sorts of scholarly knowledge about the trade in goods and ideas along the Silk Road. I talked with Peter Vallance at Rocky Mountain Bicycles.
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Silk Road Ride: March 2009
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. On the (Silk) Road Again, Just Can't Wait to Get on the (Silk) Road Again! I'm taking advantage of the fact that I'm out from under the curtain of censorship in Myanmar to update this blog (Blogspot is censored in the Golden Smiling Land). Soon I will be out of Myanmar for good; at the beginning of June, my contract ends and I will finish an unprecedented three years of sedentary existence as a teacher and return to what I'm best at: nomadic explorations of the world. Late Sept...
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Silk Road Ride: January 2010
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Thursday, January 21, 2010. The final, symbolic end of the Silk Road Ride. Carrouge, Switzerland, January 21. My friend Manuel had set up a welcoming committee of journalists to take photos and talk to me as I pushed my bike along the streets and up and over the bridges towards my finishing point. So far, there are two stories that have come out in the Italian press:. This one (from Il Gazzetino, the main daily paper of Venice). And this one (from Nuova Venezia). Posted by xuanzang at 5:09 AM. 2009: Balk...
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Silk Road Ride: November 2009
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Friday, November 20, 2009. Off to the Balkans. Berat, Albania, Nov. 20. The Silk Road Ride is over, sad to say. I will continue to add links and maps to this site, but for now my further cycling adventures, riding through the Balkans in November and December of 2009, can be found at. I hope you have enjoyed reading about my Silk Road adventures, and that you will continue to follow my cycling explorations in the future! Posted by xuanzang at 12:28 PM. Monday, November 02, 2009. Silk Road Bike-u Haiku.
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Silk Road Ride: August 2009
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Sunday, August 23, 2009. Rider on the Storm. Baku, Sunday August 23. Leaving Baku on Wednesday, I left ludicrously late (like 11:30 am! After a rainy night, I spent the entire next day riding to Xinaliq, a mere 36 kilometres away. My average speed for the day was a mere 7.4 km/h, which tells you that it was a strictly uphill sort of day. And what uphills they were! The next day (yesterday) I awoke to more rain, did some bike maintenance (changing disk brake pads for the first time ever: a fiddly job!
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Silk Road Ride: October 2009
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The Silk Road Ridden! Antakya, Tuesday, October 27. 17,350 km from Xian. I rode into Antakya today at midday, outrunning a massive thunderstorm, arriving in what was once Antioch, the third-largest city in the Roman Empire and (more importantly) the western terminus of the cross-Asia caravan routes known as the Silk Road. The Silk Road has been cycled! With strong Genoese and Venetian trading presences. So, just. Find the interesting bits, but it was as modern and anodyne a cit...
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Silk Road Ride: July 2005
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Friday, July 08, 2005. Silk Road Ride, 2002: Part 1 (From Xian to Dunhuang). May 27, 2002, Dunhuang. Xian-Dunhuang, 2380 km, 23 days of cycling. I'm in Dunhuang, the little oasis on the edge of the Gobi Desert, taking a much-needed day away from the bicycle. I've been cycling almost every day since I started on May 3rd in Xian, and the constant exercise is catching up with my legs. Wikipedia's Silk Road article. The Silk Road Foundation. Articles on famous travellers along the Silk Road). I made my way b...
